Extend API

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Administrators can disable file_get_contents() outside of the server, that’s very possible. It depends on the fopen wrapper setting. Don’t ask me what the security concerns were though. I can’t recall.

If you want to use it inside your plugin you will probably need to do something like this:

Code:

if ((bool)ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
    // use fopen
} elseif (in_array('curl',get_loaded_extensions())) {
    // use cURL
} else {
    // server has no way to get external file
}